stopover

[stop-oh-ver]

noun

1. a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.

2. such a stop made with the privilege of proceeding later on the ticket originally issued.

stopover

/ ˈstɒpˌəʊvə /

noun

1. a stopping place on a journey

verb

1. (intr, adverb) to make a stopover

Word History and Origins

Origin of stopover¹

First recorded in 1860–65; noun use of verb phrase stop over

Example Sentences

Utah’s Great Salt, another critical stopover, declined in 2022 to its lowest level on record, making the water saltier and more difficult for brine shrimp and flies to reproduce.

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She took a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to the Indonesian island with a stopover in Doha, police said, arriving at the international airport on 12 August.

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Yamaguchi thought it would be a stopover on her way back to the East Coast, where “serious” artists moved.

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She launched her international career in 1972 with a tour of Australia, but a stopover performance in America on the way home failed to attract much of an audience.

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He said the attackers took away and "executed" young men who revealed they were from el-Fasher, so when he was interrogated he claimed that he was from Shaqra, a stopover on the way to Tawila.

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